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When B provides a counterexample for A's assertion, A redefines "Christian" to mean "a follower of Jesus who doesn't lose his faith", tautologically satisfying his initial assertion.

Blind Faith? 2009

P.S. The other (pedantic) point, which I forgot to make, is that you counterexample isn't really a counterexample to the theory - if only because the theory is almost tautologically true: what is a "high status group" other than a group which people have positive feelings towards and want to identify with?

What, Me Rich?, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

The voters receive no explicit criteria before voting in that category, which the academy defines tautologically as "the best motion picture of the year."

Academy Awards: And the Oscar for Best Picture goes to reward . . . just what? 2011

If a large (or preferably single) group of patients can negotiate a lower price, then that fact becomes tautologically true.

Matthew Yglesias » Who Hates the Public Option? 2010

You can tautologically assert that it is “rational” for a person in accord to “true preferences” that are “revealed” by their action in eating cheeseburger after cheeseburger only to later be deeply ostracized by society for being fat and then later to suffer a horrible death at a young age, but this is just nonsense.

The Volokh Conspiracy » The Double Standard of Libertarian Paternalism 2010

Indeed, it seems tautologically true: to be happier, you have to turn sad thoughts and feelings into happy ones.

This column will change your life: Power to the people… or not 2010

Its modern version—the idea that somewhere in us is an authentic self, waiting to emerge like a sculpture from a slab of marble—is equally unable to withstand the obvious effects of mind-altering drugs, unless you define that self tautologically as whatever is released by the chemical.

MANUFACTURING DEPRESSION Gary Greenberg 2010

You can tautologically assert that it is “rational” for a person in accord to “true preferences” that are “revealed” by their action in eating cheeseburger after cheeseburger only to later be deeply ostracized by society for being fat and then later to suffer a horrible death at a young age, but this is just nonsense.

The Volokh Conspiracy » The Double Standard of Libertarian Paternalism 2010

The Jaguar is dazzlingly silver-plated (speed of light) and the Harrier has tautologically painted feathers as if it was not already named, and shaped, after a bird.

Camille Silvy: Photographer of Modern Life; Fiona Banner: Duveens Commission 2010 2010

There is knowing and there is faith, the knowable is provable to a certain extent, faith is not, thus perpetuating the latter's own need tautologically.

TEXAS FAITH: What's the role of religion in public education? | RELIGION Blog | dallasnews.com 2010